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What are BenchmarkingAssessments?• Administered Periodically • Beginning, Middle, and End of the Year• Provides teachers with information about students’ progress on skills• Are useful to inform instructional decision making.• Low stakes for individual students

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Teaching StrategiesGOLD• Objectives are organized into 10 areas of development and learning• Teachers record observations for 38 GOLD Objectives for Learning & Development

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GOLD Continuum:Process• Teachers observe students playing in small groups, during centers, and at outdoor activity times• Examples: – 2c, Interact with peers – 11c, Solves problems – 14b, Engages in socio-dramatic play

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What is DIBELS?• A way to quickly identify students who are struggling with early reading skills and to gauge the effectiveness of any extra help they are getting.• Used K – 5th at Brent• A series of one-minute assessments that measure a student’s ability and growth in essential early reading skills: • Phonemic Awareness : Hearing and identifying the individual sounds in a word • Alphabetic Principle: Associating those sounds with a letter or letters • Accuracy and Fluency: Putting those words together into smooth phrases

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DIBELS: Process• Every student in the school participates in a DIBELS assessment at least three times a year: In September, January and May• Students sit one on one with the teacher and it is all talking and pointing: nothing written• Testing takes 10 – 15 minutes depending on the number of DIBELS measures required at the student’s grade level.• Relaxed and fun. Younger students consider DIBELS assessment to be “games with letters and sounds.”

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DIBELS: Data• If a student scores below what is typically expected, extra help in that skill will be offered.• These students are frequently monitored ( every two to four weeks ) to determine if the intervention is resulting in improvement.

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DIBELS: Reporting• Three times a year, a letter goes home with your child’s DIBELS scores and suggestions for targeted skills practice you can do at home.• Scores in each DIBELS measure falls into one of three categories: – Goal: your child is right on track – Some Support: Let’s keep an eye on this skill and try some extra instruction and practice – Most Support: your child is behind where he/she needs to be in this skill and needs focused instruction and practice

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Fountas & PinnellLeveling• Teachers use this information to plan lessons that target student’s needs• Students select independent reading books according to their levels

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Achievement Network(ANet)• 3/4/5 Graders• Teachers deliver instruction according to a pacing guide• Each test assesses only what was taught during that interim period

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ANet: Data• Teachers reflect on class and student data to determine content that needs to be re-taught.• Leadership team reflects on grade level data to determine instructional trends.• School level data can be compared with other ANet schools to monitor progress during the year.

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What About theDC-CAS?• A one-time test; not a benchmarking assessment• Data is collected and used at the state level, rather than at the school level• Standardized administration• Basis for determinations of school progress, but not instructionally useful